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Potential jurors in the high-profile trial of a Chinese immigrant charged with murder for the death of her newborn daughter
won’t have to disclose their religious or political views, but they will be asked whether they or people close to them
have been treated for mental health issues, suffered the loss of an infant or attempted suicide.

Incriminating statements made to detectives during an early morning interrogation in the county jail have been thrown out
by the Indiana Supreme Court because the defendant had invoked his right to counsel at an interrogation two days before.

A trial court erred in granting summary judgment for an axle manufacturer sued by the estate of a contract truck driver who
died when a load fell on him in an accident that occurred while the facility was closed.

Indiana Chief Justice Brent Dickson has appointed Justice Loretta Rush and Henry County Chief Probation Officer Susan Lightfoot
to the newly created Commission on Improving the Status of Children in Indiana. He made the appointments Wednesday.

7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner had a fellow judge on the edge of his seat Thursday waiting to see how the
opinion in a murder case would be decided. The court upheld a prisoner’s conviction of first-degree murder of the prisoner’s
cellmate.

A social worker who testified about a parenting assessment at a termination of parental rights hearing was properly allowed
to testify as an expert witness, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled, because the Indiana Rules of Evidence control. The judges
affirmed the termination of a mother’s parental rights to her two young sons.

The Indiana Court of Appeals held Thursday that a National Precursor Log Exchange report documenting the purchases of ephedrine
and pseudoephedrine by a defendant are allowed into evidence under the business record exception to the hearsay rule.

Four companies that sell novelty items, aromatherapy products and other items have filed a lawsuit against Indiana’s
prosecutors, alleging a newly enacted law that makes it illegal to possess or deal “look-alike” synthetic drugs
is unconstitutional.

The Indiana Court of Appeals found a Carroll County man should be allowed to make a redemption payment to obtain five parcels
of real estate owned by his mother that were put in a tax sale. The failure to comply with the statutes governing tax sales
and redemption rendered void a tax deed on the properties assigned to someone else.

Because his guilty plea included a fixed sentence, a man who pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge is precluded from
challenging his sentence by direct appeal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. This also prevents him from challenging his
sentence under Ind. Post-Conviction Rule 2.

A lawsuit alleges that Muncie-based First Merchants Bank manipulated the timing of customers’ transactions to cause
their checking accounts to bounce more frequently, generating millions of dollars in overdraft fees.

The Indiana Court of Appeals – with one judge reluctantly doing so – affirmed a decision by an administrative
law judge that found a religious organization unlawfully retaliated against a family by expelling them from the homeschooling
group. The expulsion occurred after the family sought a dietary accommodation for their teenage daughter at a social event
and later filed a complaint with the Indiana Civil Rights Commission.

A federal judge has left the door open for a former Division I college football quarterback to pursue his claim that the NCAA
constitutes an illegal college sports monopoly, allowing him to amend a complaint that had been dismissed.

A woman does not have to pay the attorney fees for her ex-husband after she sought more than $135,000 in owed child support
after he failed to pay for 16 years, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. The trial court ordered her to pay the fees under
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Former personal injury attorney William Conour claims his ex-wife is in possession of most of the items the government says
are missing from his Carmel home, but he acknowledged auctioning sculptures for $10,000 in an apparent violation of bond conditions
in his federal wire fraud case.

The Indiana Tax Court Friday sent a case back to the Department of Local Government Finance for it to take another look at
its approval of a $400,000 loan for a fire truck to be paid entirely by residents of a Morgan County township. Some residents
argued that because the truck would be used by other townships, it’s unconstitutional to order them to be solely responsible
for the loan.

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday denied certiorari to two cases stemming from an Indiana law disqualifying
a health care provider in participating in a government program because it provides abortion care.

Judges on a panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals were stumped at times Friday in a case regarding legal fees due from the
Indiana Patient’s Compensation Fund to the estate of a woman who won a wrongful death judgment after she died from burns
at a care facility.

The Indiana Court of Appeals Friday concluded that a woman employed by a license-exempt child care ministry in Indianapolis
can’t circumvent a prohibition from being employed at any child care ministry by relying on the Indiana Restricted Access
Act.

A mother who was close to reunification with her three children, deemed children in need of services, until she battered her
fiancé in front of them had the termination of her parental rights affirmed by the Indiana Court of Appeals.